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WIKIPEDIA (Education) : Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

Many more members of the teaching profession should in future be able to teach their subject(s) through at least one foreign language; to this end, trainee teachers should study language(s) alongside their area of specialisation and undertake a part of their teaching studies abroad.

In implementing their commitment to teach at least two foreign languages from a very early age, Member States should consider whether adjustments are necessary to primary school curricula, and whether provision for the training and deployment of additional specialist teaching staff and other teaching and learning resources in primary and pre-primary schools is adequate.

There is also a wider range of related issues to consider. For example, women very much outweigh men in the teaching workforce; there are marked differences between countries in the salaries of teachers relative to average wages; the retention of teachers is specially affected by general labour market conditions; and the teaching profession has a high percentage of older workers, with the inevitable implication that sufficient numbers of motivated and high-calibre recruits need to be attracted as these experienced teachers retire.

The conclusions of the Council and the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, of 14 November 2006 on efficiency and equity in education and training, which stated that ‘the motivation, skills and competences of teachers, trainers, other teaching staff and guidance and welfare services, as well as the quality of school leadership, are key factors in achieving high quality learning outcomes’ and that ‘the efforts of teaching staff should be supported by continuous professional development’.

Objective 1. 1 of the ‘Education Training 2010’ work programme — Improving education and training for teachers and trainers, which highlights the importance of attracting and retaining well-qualified and motivated people to the teaching profession, of identifying the skills that teachers require to meet the changing needs of society, of providing conditions to support teachers through initial and in-service training, and of attracting recruits to teaching and training who have professional experience in other fields

Numerous social, cultural, economic and technological changes in society place new demands on the teaching profession and hasten the need for the development of more competence-centred approaches to teaching, together with a greater emphasis on learning outcomes.

I think that Mr Mavrommatis is right in pointing the finger at the teaching, because when teaching is separated from other activities, namely research or even the transfer of knowledge, via innovation, into real practice and the real economy, then all those aspects become rather weak or average, and we fall in the rankings, moving into a second division.

In implementing their commitment to teach at least two foreign languages from a very early age, Member States should consider whether adjustments are necessary to primary school curricula, and whether provision for the training and deployment of additional specialist teaching staff and other teaching and learning resources in primary and pre-primary schools is adequate.

Many more members of the teaching profession should in future be able to teach their subject(s) through at least one foreign language; to this end, trainee teachers should study language(s) alongside their area of specialisation and undertake a part of their teaching studies abroad.

Currently, about 30% of the pupils are taught in a minority language. Transitional arrangements and technical preparations such as a bonus scheme for teaching in Latvian, the production of teaching materials in the Latvian language and language training for non-Latvian speaking teachers are in place.

They believed that the Italian state should have integrated them into the category of members of the academic teaching staff or, failing that, it should have created a specific category for them among the teaching staff.

They believed that the Italian state should have integrated them into the category of members of the academic teaching staff or, failing that, it should have created a specific category for them among the teaching staff.

II. Diversifying the learning and teaching of the languages of the European Union - In view of the developments that have taken place and the progress that has been made over the last ten years in the teaching of languages in all the Member States of the Union, pupils should as a general rule have the opportunity of learning two languages of the Union other than their mother tongue(s) for a minimum of two consecutive years during compulsory schooling and if possible for a longer period; the aim of such teaching, going beyond introductory tuition, is the acquisition of clearly defined skills; it is for each Member State to specify those ...[+++]language skills and to determine the different levels of competence required and the appropriate forms of certifying achievement; - the provision of teaching for languages which are less widely used or less frequently taught should be increased and diversified as far as possible, at all levels of teaching and throughout all types of curricula; - in view of the difficulties in the way of such diversification, it will be necessary to use all the opportunities offered by open and distance teaching and the new technologies; schemes to develop and disseminate these teaching and learning tools should receive special attention at Community level.

2. Promoting innovative methods in schools and universities With the aim of improving language skills and in view of the inevitable timetable constraints on language classes, a range of innovative methods to make language teaching and learning more effective could be introduced, in particular: - periods of intensive teaching and learning; - the opportunity for teaching staff on mobility schemes or on sabbatical leave and visiting teaching staff whose mother tongue is one of the languages of the European Union to be able to teach in that language; - the teaching of classes in a foreign language for disciplines other than languages, provid ...[+++]ing bilingual teaching.

- the opportunity for teaching staff on mobility schemes or on sabbatical leave and visiting teaching staff whose mother tongue is one of the languages of the European Union to be able to teach in that language,

Through such a mechanism the quality of teaching products could be improved, innovative courses and materials for each Member State or common to several States could be designed and good practice for all levels of teaching, including the teaching of modern languages to young children, could be passed on,

2 (a) The Community will provide support for teaching/training assignments for teaching staff at universities or for industry personnel in Member States to carry out teaching/training assignments for periods from one week to one academic year in eligible countries.

To give a very brief idea of just some of the projects being co-financed by the Community, we might mention: * a regional project aiming to develop teaching programmes for Dutch in small businesses; * a transfrontier project for the teaching of Danish and German; * the production of multimedia aids for the teaching of economic German; - 2 - * Euro-Transpo-Langues, a transnational project for the teaching of four Community languages in the road transport sector; * teaching and functional dictionary projects, e.g. a German-Greek commercial dictionary and another for Danish-Greek; * transnational events organised by specialist associations ...[+++]dealing with the teaching, practice and promotion of foreign languages, etc.

These 92 subsidies will lead to the setting up of : - 6 "Jean Monnet Chairs", a symbolic term relating to a full time teaching post entirely devoted to the teaching of European integration; - 23 Permanent courses, compulsory courses on European integration; - 6 European modules; - 19 Research grants and 29 grants for teaching materials, all linked to the selected Chairs and permanent courses, aimed at allowing centres of activity to form around the teaching activities created; - 9 Doctoral grants, for young researchers undertaking PhD research projects in Polish and Hungarian universities. These projects will lead to the significant expa ...[+++]nsion of the European teaching activities created in Eastern Europe as a result of the first Jean 1 Composed of nine members representing the Liaison Committee of the National Conferences of Rectors/Vice Chancellors of the universities in the Member States and the Association of professors specialised in European integration studies - ECSA- Europe.

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